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Title
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Ansel Lurio Nov 6 2020 (video)
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interviewee
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Ansel Lurio
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interviewer
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Nick DelDuca
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Date
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2020-11-06
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Subject
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Accessibility
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Education
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Folk Art
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Fenimore Art Museum
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The Farmers' Museum
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Description
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Video Interview with Ansel Lurio, 2009 Graduate of the Cooperstown Graduate Program. Ansel goes into detail about his projects with The Farmers' Museum and the Fenimore Art Museum.
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Transcription
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ND:
This is Nick DelDuca, with the CGP Community Stories Project. We're doing a quick video interview [on November 6, 2020] with Ansel Lurio about some of the projects he worked on with the local museums here. Ansel, you mentioned working on projects both with The Farmers' Museum and the Fenimore [Art] Museum, why don't you tell about those.
AL:
Well, the Fenimore Art Museum, it was for a folk art class. I wrote an audio tour aimed at children, for the folk art gallery and the artwork they had in it at the time. So, I got to sort of go into depth with a bunch of folk art, which is often odd and unusual. Often their stories are even more interesting than the actual objects. So, there's that, and I also did a little project on a disabled folk artist, who lost the use of his legs in an accident, but he still managed to make some great art, which, I think, some is in the art museum probably. As I'm disabled myself, I thought it was quite an interesting story.
ND:
There was one other thing you talked about, you talked about...
AL:
The Farmers' Museum.
ND:
Yeah.
AL:
Yeah, that was for my education class, that was putting together a distance learning program. This was really in the infancy of those programs, which we now see everywhere. I used some video and audio clips, some pictures of paintings, and some objects from around The Farmers' Museum. Some different foods. It was on sustainable agriculture. I did run it once for a class.
ND
Other than that, there was one other story you mentioned, the Culture and Collections class, and how much you enjoyed that. Why don't you elaborate on that a bit?
AL:
Well, I mean we got to look at actual artifacts in the collection and go into depth and do journal writing to find out more about them. I used a couple objects in my own collection, some silver from my great aunt and a table I had found at an antique shop. It was pretty neat seeing the provenance of my own objects.
ND:
Thank you for your time and information. This has been Nick DelDuca interviewing Ansel Lurio for CGP Community Stories. Thank you.
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Coverage
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Westchester, NY
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1984-2020
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Creator
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Nick DelDuca
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Publisher
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Cooperstown Graduate Program, State University of New York-College at Oneonta
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Rights
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Cooperstown Graduate Association, Cooperstown, NY
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Format
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movie/mpeg-4
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22mB
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Language
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En-US
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Type
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Video
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Identifier
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20-006b
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Contributor
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Cooperstown Graduate Association, Cooperstown, NY
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Abstract
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Track 1, 0:00 - Fenimore Project
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Track 1, 1:45 - Farmers' Museum Project
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Track 1, 2:45 - Ansel's Interview
